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MATT: Yep, right at the bottom. This is some Honey
I Shrunk the Kids shit now.
SUMALEE: I should have talked to my friends before
to get a plan. Nila’s a little confused again.
MATT: You’re looking at the building right there.
You can see the two guards going along the wall.
You hear the sound of work being done on the carts
around the side, and all you see is that front
door with that slight gap at the bottom. What are
you doing?
SUMALEE: I think I want to go underneath the gap.
MATT: Okay. You scoot, squeeze under, flattening
out your mouse body and making your way through on
the inside. The immediate warmth hits you from the
cold exterior of the forest. The inside is, mostly
being stone, comparatively, the temperature is
much warmer in here. Coming inside, it’s still a
flat stone floor. It’s not very well decorated at
all.
SAM: So judgy.
SUMALEE: Field mouse is not looking at the
decoration.
MATT: In the sense that comparatively to some
other places you’ve seen here, it’s just plain,
stone walls. It’s very basic. It’s so basic.
Looking inside, there is one curved stone
staircase that leads up to the second floor. There
is a hall that goes to the left and further down
to one side. There is a closed door that leads
into an interior chamber, and that’s all you can
see at the moment. The spiral staircase up, the
door ahead of you, and the hall that curves around
the side.
SAM: You know it’s down.
SUMALEE: It’s down where my son could be. Sorry,
so I don’t want to go up the spiral staircase.
What are the other two options?
SAM: Around to the side or a closed door.
LIAM: This floor, upstairs or downstairs.
SUMALEE: Downstairs.
MARISHA: Do the spiral stairs go up and down?
MATT: They only go up, yes.
SUMALEE: I have to pick one of the two doors and
hope that it leads down.
MATT: The door or the hallway, one of the two.
SUMALEE: (sighs) I wish I had my smell pouch!
(laughter)
SUMALEE: I’ll choose… the door.
MARISHA: It’s the game show host problem.
MATT: You squeeze beneath the door and immediately
see a general mess room. There are a couple of
tables and chairs that are pressed up against
them. The smell of alcohol and stale, dried meat
hits your nose and you can see immediately,
sitting in two of the chairs, two members of The
Iron Shepherds that are in the process of eating a
midday lunch. One of them is a small male
halfling. He has a weaselly-looking face. He’s in
the process of finishing what’s comparatively to
his size, a large tankard of ale, and eating some
sort of heavy starch biscuit meal. Across from
him, on the other side of the table, you see a